Royal Mail spam

The Royal Mail is constantly battling against all those modern private companies who want a slice of its action. In theory I’m all in favour of some kind of monopoly on the universal delivery of post in the UK. Just as it makes sense to me that one company should run a rail network, it seems simplest to have the Royal Mail run the mail. But every time the post(wo)man pops a bunch of junk through our letterbox I want to see the company die a little.

It’s not the usual junk mail, like credit card offers or spurious lottery prizes, which we avoid entirely via the Mailing Preference Service. This is unavoidable spam, not addressed to an individual, posted through every letterbox by the posty, avoiding all filters. Today we received one genuine item of mail and the pictured seven bits of junk. Grrr.

I generally shove them in the nearest Royal Mail post box, which gets me an inkling of satisfaction, but any better ideas for retaliation would be welcome.

Comments

I open them to see if there are any pre-paid reply envelopes inside, which I use to return the crap to the spamming sons of filth. If there is no envelope, like you, I pop the crap in the post box.

I also still receive letters for the previous owner of my home, who left four years ago. For the first year, I forwarded them. Then, when I didn’t receive so much as a Christmas card of thanks, I started returning them to sender with “Moved” written on the front. Recently, I started returning them to sender with “Dead” written on front.

How about this one?
send an email to optout@royalmail.com
and you will get a form back which you can fill in and send off to RM and they can stop your postie from delivering leaflets as far as is humanly possible.